Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy and Tradition Membership singer Boy George have joined forces for a brand new tune. “Let the Flowers Develop,” mentioned Murphy in a press launch, happened when he was in Spain engaged on a brand new album and heard a bit of music taking part in on producer Youth’s cellphone. “It caught my ear for its melodic magnificence in addition to a Roy Orbison–like voice that sang the tune,” he mentioned. Upon studying that it was a Boy George demo, he got here up with the model that turned “Let the Flowers Develop.” Take a hear under.
Boy George added, “After I heard the combination, I used to be satiated in each approach. I’ve all the time liked Pete’s voice and his writing on this provides an exquisite darkness. The manufacturing feels very epic, like Scott Walker.”
The pair first met many years in the past, when Boy George went backstage to fulfill Howard Devoto at a Journal present that Bauhaus have been supporting. “He struck me as a super-original, self-styled Seventeenth-century fop,” Murphy mentioned within the press launch. “The second time I met him was once we walked into the BBC to do ‘Ziggy Stardust’ on Prime of the Pops the place Tradition Membership have been additionally making their debut on the present. George greeted me very warmly and I found he was a Bauhaus fan.”
